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The Problem with Mass Pop Music isn’t that it’s “Pop”: Mass Culture and Mass Society
Republicans don’t annoy me; Democrats don’t either. Conservatives don’t annoy me, neither do Liberals or New Democrats. But…. technocrats annoy me. Continue reading
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The Commitments of Authentic People
Commitments are important because they stretch over a long time and act as types of buffers and infrastructure that protect us from the equivocations of the human heart. Continue reading
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Authenticity: Being Yourself in a World Designed to Make You Someone Else
Can we know ourselves from moment to moment, every day, not with words or descriptions, but with an actual perception of our inner selves being intact and authentically ours? In other words, we do not have to live out a story, but instead, we experience a reality. Continue reading
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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 3
Jesus famously said as he was being crucified, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” The human artifice has essentially crucified the human condition. And, like the calamitous natural disasters that characterize a planet in revolt against the industrialization that is characterized by exploitation of the Earth, so too, a populist… Continue reading
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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 2
The Industrial Revolution has pushed the limits of a sustainably livable planet; the technocratic logic of social mobility grafted onto the very structures of the human condition has distorted our very human condition. Continue reading
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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 1
“Progressive parties and movements used to be the parties of working people…. but in recent decades, that’s changed in a way that also parallels education.” Continue reading
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The Corporate Leviathan: How Corporations Became the True Artificial Intelligence of Our Time
In response to AI: Are you on a journey to reclaim authenticity and defy corporate dominance in a world teetering on the brink of mass conformity? Continue reading
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Bring Your Whole Self to the World
I recently shut off the flow of the news, and became intentional about what “events” I looked at. I got on to this strategy recently because I had realized I spent too much time on LinkedIn. I knew that I was suffering from information overload, because I was feeling burnt out by the constant stream Continue reading
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Bell Media: The Corporate Gutting of Democracy
We may feel sorry for the journalists – mostly local – who lost their jobs… and there is much to grieve in this respect. But, what happens to the services they provided? And what happens to the people whose services have now been cut by their corporate “restructuring”? Continue reading
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Inadequate Political and Moral Categories in Palestine and Israel – Part 1
We need to bring the entire Palestinian population back into the state of legality – not into a family of nations nor with pointless and virtue-signalling categories of human rights, but with a reconsideration again of what it means to be human. Continue reading
About me: I am a career educator and traveler at heart. My written work includes academic writing in philosophy and linguistics, English acquisition, and most intently in the areas of spiritual engagement with reality and what that means for our public lives.
My education is a mixture of formal study in philosophy, political theory, Biblical studies, and history, along with professional teaching certification in TESOL and in cognitive testing, and international teaching.
My travel experiences include a range of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. I have lived in Canada, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Thailand. From those places I have traveled to many others besides.
I am a child of the 70’s and a “family man.” That means I have two wonderful kids who have been round the world with me.
Lastly, I am married to a wonderful woman since 2004. She is my partner, my friend, and my muse.
Thanks again for stopping by,
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 